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inform-evolution
Inform is a mature and widely used programming language, and changes to its design which are visible to users, or implementation changes on any large scale, have since 30 July 2022 been proposed and tracked in this repository. The core repository for the language itself is ganelson/inform.
In progress
| Proposal | Began | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| (IE-0015) World model enforcement | 16 January 2023 | PR#15 |
Implemented and waiting to be released
Still drafting or not yet implemented
| Proposal | Began | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| (IE-0011) New data structures (still drafting: see pull request) | -- | PR#11 |
| (IE-0008) Faster memory allocation | 13 July 2022 | PR#8 |
| (IE-0007) Double-precision real numbers | 3 July 2022 | PR#7 |
| (IE-0004) Access to data files embedded in blorbs | 5 May 2022 | PR#4 |
Notes
- Proposals are numbered IE-0001, IE-0002, ... in order of creation. They will not always be implemented in numerical order.
- The baseline design is Inform version 10.1.0.
- Any change to the Inform design visible to users (and causing a minor or major version number bump) should be related to a proposal here.
- For now, proposals are made by the Inform team.
- Details are likely to change before release, and proposals listed above as "waiting to be released" are only mostly final. In particular, comments on them remain open.
For now, we ask users not to open their own pull requests against this repository, but users are very welcome to contribute comments in the PR associated with each proposal for exactly that purpose. For example, PR#1 exists for comments on IE-0001. For more free-flowing discussion about future possibilities, the Inform area of the intfiction.org forum would be the place.